Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...month. There are now 30,000 North Vietnamese troops in the South. With the Viet Cong, the "hard hats" from the North form a tough, dedicated fighting force of 250,000. Though American and South Vietnamese troops are outkilling the enemy almost 3 to 1, some guerrilla war experts maintain that the ratio is not nearly high enough to bleed the Reds into retreat out of South Viet...
Emerging a Hero. When the Japanese invaded the Philippines, Marcos was serving as an army lieutenant. Captured after the fall of Bataan, he soon escaped into the hills, led a guerrilla band that terrorized the Japanese. He emerged from the war his country's most decorated hero, with 27 medals, including the U.S. Army's Distinguished Service Cross...
...Says mild-mannered Major Sajidiman, plotting the action on a U.S. Army map: "I am convinced that Aidit cannot escape history." So far, however, Solo's resident Napoleon has managed to escape the Indonesian army, and the odds are that he is busily rallying support for some sustained guerrilla warfare. "Mount Merapi is quiet just now too," warned one Soloist, "but watch out. Gestapu blood is still...
...initiative" in Viet Nam and, with its ever-increasing strength, is likely to keep it. If that happens, he added, the war may very well end without a single session of formal truce talks but with the "eventual dissolution" of the Viet Cong apparatus and an undeclared halt to guerrilla activities. Meanwhile the cause of peace can realistically be advanced only on the battlefield...
...suppose that the U.S. actually succeeded in "pacifying" South Vietnam. What then? The remaining Viet Cong could fade back among the people and wait for opportunities to strike. It would be impossible to seal hermetically the borders from further guerrilla infiltration. Hanson Baldwin has estimated that a perpetual police force of as many as 250,000 soldiers would be required to keep the country "in order." The economy would be in shambles from years of devastation; thousands would be without food. Hostility among the population would force the U.S. to rely on familiar cliques of embattled generals, out of touch...